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That F*cking Marketing Podcast

TFM Digital 20 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

That F*cking Marketing Podcast cuts through the noise of typical marketing shows by focusing on what actually works and what doesn't. The hosts bring on top marketing minds to discuss real campaigns, emerging trends, and where listeners should direct their attention. It's a no-nonsense take on the industry, promising straightforward insights without the fluff. The show encourages listeners to follow along for episodes they won't want to miss.

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8 Million Australians Use Snapchat … And They’re not all Gen Z Oct 12, 2026 2640 Want the exact framework Snap Inc. uses to turn Snapchat into a high-converting attention engine? Grab The Snapchat Marketing Playbook here. Snapchat reaches around 90% of Australians aged 16–24, but its audience extends well beyond Gen Z Snapchat's Head of Agency & Large Customer Sales, Clare Rudduck, breaks down why traditional social media feeds are suffering from an "AI slop" problem and wh

YouTube, AI, and The New Rules of Video Buying with Google’s own Caroline Oates Oct 7, 2026 3183 Want the exact framework Google uses to turn YouTube into a high-converting sales engine? Grab The Modern Video Playbook here - https://tfm.marketing/podcast/youtube-ai-and-the-new-rules-of-video-buying-with-googles-own-caroline-oates/. Ready to execute these frameworks and build a full-funnel video engine for your brand? Book a Call with us today! Think you know where your audience is actually

The Hidden Psychology Behind Great Advertising That Converts with Jonathan Rolley Sep 30, 2026 3042 Is your latest campaign actually working, or are your dashboards lying to you? In this episode, we chat with Jonathan Rolley, agency founder and media strategist with more than 10,000 ad evaluations behind him. Jonathan explains how advertising moves through the brain, and why what impresses the boardroom often isn't what makes people buy. You'll learn the 12-second rule, a 4-step framework to c

From Empty Seats to $200M+: How Dynamic Pricing Is Revolutionising Hospitality with Pan Koutlakis Sep 23, 2026 3099 What if discounting regularly was actually the secret to building a $200M+ hospitality empire?  In this episode, I sit down with Pan Koutlakis, co-founder and CEO of EatClub, the tech platform powering dynamic pricing across thousands of restaurants.  You'll learn how a subtle 5% pricing shift can double customer demand, why traditional menu pricing is flawed, and how to build a thrivi

1 Billion+ Views. The Organic Strategy That Actually Generates Results Sep 16, 2026 2957 What happens when you throw out the traditional corporate hiring playbook and ask everyday people on the street what they earn?   Get Ahead App founder Sam McNamara breaks down how a series of raw, unpolished street interviews went viral, driving 42,000 users in 24 hours, launching his startup past LinkedIn on the App Store, and scaling organic reach to nearly 1 billion views. &nbs

Franchise Growth, Creator Deals, and the Ryan Reynolds Mistake Sep 9, 2026 2784 What happens when you trade doorstep sales and logistics for high-end fashion, luxury travel, and multi-figure brand deals?  Former Franchisee of the Year turned full-time creator Shaun Birley joins the show to break down his journey from pitching logistics on the pavement to landing partnerships with giants like Porsche, Cathay Pacific, and Hugo Boss.  He shares the real hustle behind

How Brands Waste Millions on Meta, Google and Bad Agency Retainers Sep 2, 2026 1796 If your ad reports look great but your business isn't actually growing, your digital budget is leaking cash. In this episode, we break down the most common digital ad spend traps, from hidden tagging glitches and aggressive AI settings to flawed agency retainers, to show you how to audit your account and recover wasted money. Tune in to get the exact 4-step checklist that will stop Meta and Goog

How Australia’s Biggest Brands Win on Radio & Podcasts with Andy Procopis Aug 26, 2026 3074 Are you throwing away your campaign budget on audio ads that everyone skips? In this episode, we sit down with audio integration expert Andy Procopis, a seasoned media strategist with years of experience navigating the high-stakes world of radio, managing major talent and bridging the gap between editorial and commercial teams. From handling mid-campaign crises to winning over massive personaliti

How to Influence What AI Says About Your Brand with Jeremy Cabral Aug 19, 2026 2601 You can go from unranked to the first page of Google in one day now … if you use AI properly. But this is like the golden days of search, the tactics available now probably won’t last forever and there is a limited window where you can influence what AI tools share about your brand AND impact your ranking significantly … if you do the strategies in this episode.  Because today I’m talking

Building a $600M Empire, Creating Demand & The Future of D2C Marketing with Simon Beard Aug 12, 2026 3682 How do you go from sweating bullets in a market tin shed ready to quit, to handing Justin Bieber $10,000 cash and building a $600M+ street style retail empire? In this episode, Culture Kings founder Simon Beard tells us how he built high-energy, world-famous retail destinations while scaling to over $100M a year online. He breaks down the exact playbook Culture Kings used to engineer viral exper

Everything Marketers Get Wrong About Gen Z with The Daily Aus Co-Founder Aug 5, 2026 3481 Every brand wants to talk to young Australians … Almost none of them have asked one. Sam Koslowski co-founded The Daily Aus at 22 with Zara Seidler. It's now the most read independent news source in Australia, and for 70% of its audience it's the only news they read at all.  So today I’m talking to him about what Gen Z actually want and are thinking right now, and what most brands get wrong

Inside the TikTok Strategy That Moved Billions for Kmart with Arielle Thomas Jul 29, 2026 3243 Brands can burn hundreds of thousands of dollars on polished content that does absolutely nothing for their bottom line. In this episode, we sit down with Arielle Thomas, the powerhouse director behind Cinema Thom who operates in the ultimate high-low mix. One day she’s shooting luxury campaigns for Vogue, Cartier, and YSL; the next, she’s building commercial creative engines for retail giants li

What The Future of Marketing Looks Like with IMAA CEO, Sam Buchanan Jul 22, 2026 2175 Sam Buchanan probably has one of the clearest views of what’s happening inside Australia’s independent media agency sector right now. As CEO of the IMAA, he’s across more than 175 indie agencies, which means he’s seeing first hand what consumers and businesses want from marketing right now in 2026.  In this episode, I’m sitting down with Sam to get an honest read on where the market is head

How CMO’s Should Choose An Agency From The Woman Who Won Gucci, Tiffany & RedBull Jul 15, 2026 3463 Most agencies know how to pitch. Far fewer know how to win the right work, keep the right clients and build something people want to be a part of. I sat down with Virginia Hyland, who previously led Havas Media Group and is now co-founder of Squad M&A, to talk about what really makes an agency valuable. Virginia has worked with huge brands - we’re talking Red Bull, Gucci, Tiffany, Rimmel, Bumbl

5 Reasons your business isn’t converting leads into Sales. Spoiler - It’s not the leads fault Jul 8, 2026 1159 “Our leads are terrible.” Said every business ever. But what if the leads aren’t the problem? In today’s episode, Matt and Taylor dig into one of the most common problems in business, and why marketing almost always gets blamed.  From the moment a lead drops into your CRM, to the point of sale there are a lot of opportunities for things to go wrong. We will break down why your leads are get

Nathan McCallum on Creator Marketing, Trust and Building a Brand People Actually Buy From Jul 1, 2026 3292 Creator marketing is one of the fastest growing channels, but so many brands are using outdated strategies that just don’t work anymore. Nathan McCallum has over 750K followers on Instagram, 180K subscribers on Youtube and has been doing this long before “creator” was a job title. He’s built an audience, a coaching business, a clothing brand and long-term brand partnerships by doing things his o

Getting into The Kardashians Hands, Neiman Marcus & Bloomingdales with KAILO’s Kristy Morris Jun 24, 2026 2926 1,000 new customers a month. And most of them never came back. Not because the product wasn't good. Because the trust wasn't deep enough yet. Kristy Morris built KAILO, a wellness brand stocked in Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's, and Kourtney Kardashian's gift guide, by learning that lesson the hard way. A $159,000 event loss, an accidental Dubai expansion, and a complete rebuild of her retention s

Stop Buying Attention. How TEAMM8 built a community that drove 500% growth Jun 17, 2026 2584 Most brands are still paying to rent attention. TEAMM8 built a community that hands it over for free. Tommy Laurens has been Marketing Director at TEAMM8 for six years. In that time the brand has grown 500%. They doubled revenue two years running. 90% up this year alone. With a team of six. No agency. No Google ads. No influencer budget. Just a community that became their biggest media channel.

AI in Marketing: What’s Useful and Where You’re Being Lied to Jun 10, 2026 2314 Every marketer is being told they need to “get on AI” right now. But most businesses don’t actually know what they’re buying. Is it AI? Is it automation? Is it just a GPT in a pretty dress? And more importantly, is it going to save your team time… or become another expensive subscription that doesn’t deliver… Today Matt is sitting down with Zaine, our Head of Investment to talk about where AI i

He Built a $47M Coffee Brand With One Marketing Rule with Phil Di Bella Jun 3, 2026 3493 Phil DeBella started a coffee company with $5,000 in a market with 2,000 competitors and sold it for $47 million. In this episode, he gives away the marketing playbook that built it and explains why most marketing “strategies” don’t actually work. We talk about how did it and why the same principles apply whether you're running a cafe, a national franchise, or trying to crack the US market.

Where Does This Leave Brands? (The State of Marketing Right Now with Adam Hickey) May 27, 2026 2304 It feels like everything in Australian media is consolidating right now. The same platforms, the same media owners, the same publishers. So where does that actually leave brands? And what happens to local media? This is just one of the things that Taylor is talking about with Adam Hickey, co-founder of Orand who has worked across agencies, client side and now consults with some of the bigges

Why Most Live Events Lose Money (Sales Tips that keep a customer engaged for 3+ years) with Shay Whitton May 20, 2026 3143 What happens when you have a customer sale cycle of 728 days? In today’s episode, Taylor is sitting down with Shay Whitton from Positive Real Estate, Australia’s FIRST buyers agents who have been working in the industry in 2003, well before the marketing world became funnels, retargeting ads and AI generated everything. Since then, the business has coached more than 7.5k clients, closed over

When Your Marketing Goes Viral for All the Wrong Reasons with lawyer Emily Lucas May 13, 2026 3221 Did you know that your AI generated content could find you in hot water? Emily Lucas, is a marketing, franchising and commercial lawyer who has seen first hand how businesses create campaigns with good intentions that end up going viral for all the wrong reasons. This episode could save you from Court, a cease and desist letter, or your Google rating plummeting from bad reviews overnight. K

Inside Channel 9: What Most Marketers Are Missing By Avoiding the Big Channels (with the Director of Sales, Rebecca) May 6, 2026 2479 Most marketers never really leave Meta and Google - and it’s not because they don’t want to.. But the rest of the media landscape feels too hard to access, too expensive and too easy to get wrong.So what actually happens on the other side? And is getting your foot in the door easier than it sounds?Today we’re sitting down with Rebecca Lawrie, Director of Sales at Channel 9 and who has spent 20+ ye

EGC: Your Employees are your best content creators. Here’s how to get them involved. Apr 29, 2026 1621 What’s the difference between EGC, UGC and why are so many brands raving about it? This week we’re talking to our Social Media Manager at TFM Digital, Elsie Mollison. She’s going to take you through the type of post that got 50,000 views (and counting), her KISS method to get the best results on any content you create and how to get your team involved with creating content that speaks directly to

Does Partnering with the NRL, AFL and Major TV Shows actually give you a good return? Leveraging Partnerships to Launch into New Markets with Caitlin Cordery Apr 22, 2026 2406 Does Partnering with the NRL, AFL and Major TV Shows actually give you a good return? Where do you even begin when trying to measure your ROI? Today I’m speaking with Caitlin Cordery who is Group Head of Marketing at Swyftx. She’s built a loyal customer base of over 1.5 millions and launched into new markets where she hasn’t had to just sell the brand, she’s had to educate on an entire cate

CEO of Mamamia: What 7.5 Million Women Are Actually Paying Attention To Apr 15, 2026 3662 If you’ve ever looked at your marketing spend and thought… this should be working better than it is… you’re probably right. Natalie Harvey is the CEO of Mamamia, a media company reaching over 7.5 million women every month, with millions of daily data points showing exactly what people are reading, watching and listening to in real time. She’s been on both sides of the table, buying media, sellin

How Faith Built a 500+ Person Waitlist *Before* Opening Her Hair Salon Apr 15, 2026 1937 Everyone says the hair industry is saturated. Faith opened three salons anyway and had a wait list for every single one of them. How? By going all in on one thing, and then curating a brand that people WANT to be a part of. In this episode, Matt is sitting down with Faith, the founder of Blondee, a hair salon that specialises in blonde hair, that successfully uses content creators for marketing

What Most Agencies Won't Tell You About Your Ad Spend Apr 15, 2026 1449 20-30% of every single dollar spent on advertising in 2025 … was completely wasted. When we started That F*cking Marketing Podcast we didn’t want to be like every other podcast, we love a good campaign breakdown … but we want to know the results (and what didn’t work as well) In our first episode we tell you what’s coming up but also why we started the podcast (and why I chose Matt as my co-ho

Welcome to That F*cking Marketing Podcast Apr 14, 2026 27 Every F*cking Marketing Podcast sounds the same. But ours doesn't. We want to talk about the things that are working and the things that just don't … not just how to 10x your meta spend with no real return. We’re going to have some of the best marketing minds in the country to talk about the campaigns they ran,the trends they're watching, and where you should be focusing your attention right n

That F*cking Marketing Podcast

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